There is a card (certain kinds of) philosophers sometimes play. They question the "practical" value of some line of argument, some research program, some discipline. "It may be theoretically helpful to talk about X, but what's the practical upshot?"
But, for practitioners of theory, theoretical value is practical value.
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The philistines have always been asking questions like that. My favorite reply is to call the question a "philistine" one and move on.
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